Combined coal hod and sieve



ISM WATSON. Combined Goal Hod and Sieve;

No. 243,018, Patented June 14,1881.

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ALEXANDER WATSON, OF EAST PEPPERELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

CO'MBINEDCOAL HOD AND SIEVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,018, dated June 14, 1881. Application filed April 6, 1881. (Model) To all whom it mag/concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER WATSON, of East Pepperell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Coal Hod and Sieve, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, showing my coal hod and sieve resting in the removable bottom.

Fig. 2 is an elevation, showing .the hod and sieve adjusted to a removable top resting on an ash-receptacle. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 00 a, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined coal hod and sieve by the use of which partially-burned coals may be cleared of ashes without raising dust, and at a saving of time and labor.

1 more particularly describe my invention as follows:

A represents the body of the hod, which rests upon theflaring flange 0, and is provided with the usual bail-ears, V, and bail W. Its bottom may be made of perforated sheet metal; but I prefer to make it 'of woven wire 0, of suitable mesh, which is tightly held between two frames, 0 c, which are riveted together. The lower frame, 0, rests upon a number of flanges, K, which are secured to the body of the hod, and the flange D, which encircles the inner face of the bodyA and is firmly riveted thereto, acts with said flanges K to hold the sifting-bottom (l in position.

A rod, f, is rigidly attached to the bottom 0, and works within the slot H to move it horizontally upon the reciprocation of the pro- 0 jecting handle F, which is attached ,to said rod f.

The air-tight cover Bis supported by the body A and the projecting flanges I), and may be quickly adjusted to prevent the escape of dust while the ashes are being sifted.

A spring, G, is riveted to the body A of the hod to permit its hooked lower end to engage with the wire or projection e, which is secured to the removable bottom E. Said spring G acts, in combination with the inclined flange e, which fits the flaring rim 0, to hold the bot: tom E firmly to the hod.

In Fig. 2 is represented a removable cover for an ash barrel or receptacle, P, which consists of the rim or plate It, having an upwardprojecting metallic inner casing, T, which fits the interior of the flaring flange o and steadies the hod, and a down ward-projectin g metallic outer casing, S, serves to hold said rim R and hod A over the ash-receptacle P.

My improved combined hod and sieve is operated as follows: The ashes from a furnace being deposited in the hod, and the removable bottom E being removed and the cover B adjusted, the hod maybe placed upon the rim R and the handle F reciprocated until all waste ash is removed. The cover B may then be removed and the clinkers or waste coals removed from the hod, and its contents may then be washed by admitting a stream of wa- When the water-tight bottom E is adjusted, as in Fig. 1, any water-drip from the hod will be retained therein, and the hod may be carried about without soiling carpets or floors. The nn pleasant escape of coal-dust in the process of emptying the ashes from hod to sieve and the manual labor of emptying the sifted coals from sieve to hod are avoided.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure'by Letters Pa tent-- 1. The combination of the flaring rim 0 with the close-fitting upturned flange e and the spring G and shoulder e, to secure the bottom E to the coal-hod, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a coal-hod and ashreceptacle, the removable cover formed of the plate R, provided with projecting flanged inner and outer casings, T and S, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

ALEXANDER WATSON.

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